He is still on the sidelines, but ex-Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore would be the frontrunner in the 2020 Republican Senate primary a little less than a year out from the contest, according to a poll released Tuesday.

The Mason-Dixon poll of 400 registered Alabama voters who identify as Republican showed Moore with 27 percent support, followed by U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, at 18 percent, and the only declared candidate, Republican Congressman Bradley Byrne of Fairhope, at 13 percent. U.S. Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Hoover, had 11 percent support while Alabama Senate President Del Marsh had 4 percent and businessman Tim James was sixth at 2 percent. A quarter of those polled were undecided.

Alabama’s primaries will take place March 3, 2020, and polls this far out are largely a measure of name recognition.

For example, Moore has 96 percent name recognition – buoyed by his tumultuous tenure as chief justice and his 2017 special election campaign against Democrat Doug Jones. Brooks – a high-profile northern Alabama congressman who also vied for the GOP Senate nomination in 2017 -- was recognized by 77 percent of those polled, and Byrne’s was recognized by a little more than half of respondents. Palmer, Marsh, and James all had name recognition below 50 percent.

Despite the sexual abuse allegations against Moore that dogged his Senate campaign, his widest lead among the potential candidates in the poll was recorded among women. Moore had the support of 31 percent of women in the Mason-Dixon survey, followed by Brooks (13 percent), Palmer (11 percent) and Byrne (10 percent.)

He had a much slimmer lead among men that was outside the poll’s margin of error. Moore had the support of 24 percent of men, compared to 23 percent for Brooks, 15 percent for Byrne and 11 percent for Palmer.

Moore has not made a decision yet on whether to mount another Senate challenge.